Question: what lead you to this path in science, why did you chose to be a geneticist

Alexander Lorenz answered on 21 May 2021:

That’s a great question, and a bit difficult to answer. I never set out to become a geneticist, it kind of happened to me, although the main decisions on my path there were deliberately taken. Originally, I studied botany with the goal to do taxonomy, but on the way there I really got interested in plant development and cell biology. Then an opportunity to do a PhD in yeast cell biology opened, back in the early 2000s this was a very exciting field (and still is), so I went with yeast. Eventually, the logics of genetics really intrigued me (and I was also frustrated and challenged that this was so difficult to understand), so I did more genetics work after finishing my PhD, and stuck with it.